| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming apparatus, capable of preventing blade curling while bringing a cleaning blade into contact with a photoreceptor drum surface at an appropriate pressure. <P>SOLUTION: In the image forming apparatus adapted to clean a photoreceptor drum 1 by cantilever-supporting the cleaning blade 51 by a support member 52 and bringing a free end-side tip 510 of the cleaning blade 51 into contact with the surface of the rotating photoreceptor drum 1 in the counter direction to the rotating direction, a stopper 53 which regulates the cleaning blade 51 so as not to be turned up by friction with the photoreceptor drum 1 is disposed in a space 512 between the surface of the photoreceptor drum 1 and a main surface 511 of the cleaning blade 51 through a predetermined clearance Δd from the main surface 511. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT |
